Meritor Wabco Air Brake System

• Recall 207556 [USA]: The pressure plate may tear the diaphragm, causing a loss of air pressure, and increasing the risk of a crash.
  Meritor, inc. (meritor) is recalling certain tse t2024 air chamber part number d3 3376t20. The spring brake chamber may have been assembled with incorrect springs that were out of specification, which can cause the pressure plate to shift.
  meritor will notify the affected vehicle oems and will inspect the pressure plate and replace brake chambers where the pressure plate has shifted, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed may 10, 2021. Owners may contact meritor customer service at 1-866-668-7221.
  owners may also contact the national highway traffic safety administration vehicle safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (tty 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.Safercar.Gov.

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• Diminished braking investigation # PE08058

  Odi has reviewed complaint and background investigation information received from component suppliers (1) haldex and (2) meritor wabco and the principally-affected vehicle manufacturers.This information indicates that the seal material in certain air brake relay valves manufactured by haldex and distributed by meritor wabco may degrade prematurely and affect the valvefunction resulting in diminished vehicle braking performance (increased stopping distance).Haldex and meritor wabco investigations have associated the degraded seal condition with exposure to aerosol oil that has migrated through the air compressor and into the brake system.These companies maintain that changes in diesel engines and lubricants adopted to conform to increasingly stringent epa emissions requirements have created an adverse operating environment for the control valve as well asother brake system components.Odi observes that vehicle manufacturers are responsible for assessing changes in vehicle operating environments and the effects of these changes on the components that are integrated into their vehicle system and that vehicle manufacturers are responsible for specifying components that will function safely and reliably when integrated into the various vehicle systems.Odi also observes that the component design should anticipate adverse environments and incorporate designs that will assure that a failure of an affected component will be detected through reasonable maintenance surveillance before it exposes the affected vehicle and/or public to risk.Althoughno crashes, fatalities, injuries, or property damage incidents have been reported by any of the affected vehicle or component manufacturers, odi is concerned about the unexpectedly hazardous nature of this failure and after closing this initial investigation phase, will initiate individual investigations of the principally affected vehicle manufacturers.Odi has not summarized the complaint statistics from the reporting oems in this resume due to the potential that the sources and methods of data collection may vary across manufacturers.Rather, odi will summarize the complaint statistics associated with each affected vehicle oem on the successor pe resumes.
  

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We had a meritor brake shoe come apart prematurely.

We had a meritor brake shoe come apart prematurely.